啄木鸟打洞,全凭嘴硬 啄木鳥打洞,全憑嘴硬 啄木鳥打洞,全憑嘴硬

woodpecker drilling a hole: it all relies on a hard beak

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning
See 啄木鸟找食,全凭嘴硬: success comes down to talking tough or talking well. Often mocking.
Wordplay
嘴硬 (zuǐ yìng) is literally a hard beak, and figuratively being stubborn in speech.
Simplified
啄木鸟打洞,全凭嘴硬
Traditional (Taiwan)
啄木鳥打洞,全憑嘴硬
Pinyin
zhuómùniǎo dǎ dòng, quán píng zuǐyìng
Bopomofo
ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄚˇ ㄉㄨㄥˋ,ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄗㄨㄟˇ ㄧㄥˋ

Written with HSK 5 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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